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Ryan Gardner's avatar

"mistakes were made" bellows the woman who demanded you to make them while pulling the "morality" card if you didn't.

You're going to hear this nonstop, but what's happening is this:

"When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."

-Hannah Arendt

Its just a limited hangout to meet those ends.

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It's True's avatar

And things like this: "Over the past week, President Trump and his team have repeatedly claimed to have intelligence showing that the new coronavirus accidentally escaped from a lab in China" and "Some former intelligence officials and independent analysts now say that the disconnect echoes missteps that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq".

From May 2020, in that bastion of independence, NPR. I mean bastion of far left extremism.

(https://www.npr.org/2020/05/06/851043242/as-trump-pushes-theory-of-virus-origins-some-see-parallels-to-iraq )

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Thunder Road's avatar

Hey, at least they admitted that there were "missteps that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq."

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Brogan12's avatar

Ohhh I like that quote by Arendt! The "collective" guilt...

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Hang together...or hang alone...

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JD Free's avatar

Time laundering - when there is no more benefit to be extracted from a lie, so the liars admit the lie in a way that minimizes consequences.

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RioRosie's avatar

Blame? Let me count the ways:

The media.

The government.

The idiot neighbors and total strangers and--worse!--doctors! Medical professionals who lied to do what? Protect their jobs? And their patients be damned?

My son has threatened to put "I told you so" on my gravestone. Funny thing: I don't have a problem with that.

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Just The Facts Please's avatar

To save money on the gravestone I suggest ITYS!

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Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

Perhaps you missed the greatest irony of all: "At the time, she was an associate professor at the University of North Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science." Where was COVID developed by Ralph Baric, with the "bat lady" as his assistant? UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.

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Charles's avatar

I'll say it one again, Mr Berenson, you speak of these shots as it they are gone. THey are NOT. For instance, the University of New England is requiring students to get the updated COVID shot, if even if and NO MATTER WHEN they got the last booster. If not, they are kicked out of the dental program. Employers like CVS, still require it, and places are asking (only asking for now) for people to mask up. Until the CDC Recommended schedule is blown up, which gives all of these places the excuse to mandate, then they will keep doing it.

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Holly's avatar

And it is still on the child vaccine schedule. Criminal!

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RSgva's avatar

Yes, and this is very relevant to the admission that it was a bio weapon, because whatever is in the vaccines was concocted from elements of the same bio weapon and thus cannot be presumed harmless.

But nobody asks that next question. Just “it came from the lab but we don’t need to know what exactly was in it, how we got there, or how it morphed into an element of the vaccine. Nothing more to see here. “

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Unacceptable Risk's avatar

Sure wish I knew how these academic, well connected knuckleheads get access and the authority to write articles in the NYT. Plus, write whatever nonsense they want without any repercussions. Who edits and approves this absolute crap? How does anyone believe the NYT, the LA Times, Washington Post, etc, etc?

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Joseph Little's avatar

Short answer: "No one" does believe the "mainstream media" anymore. Done.

Not just because of Covid but because of so many many examples of stupidity, and "lack of curiosity." They are mainly propaganda organs.

To be fair, I think some of these people are "trapped" by their own ideology, and have the human characteristic of always wanting to think the "good thinks." So, at least they think they are actually telling the truth.

But, when questioned many of those types get angry (ie, they do not have a reasonable sense of "search for the truth"), so that we think likening the woke/progressive virus to a religion is appropriate.

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reality speaks's avatar

The NYT has no concept of truth and or facts. They only print stories that fit some pre approved narrative. The narrative is always designed to attack Republicans or any Democrat who goes off the reservation (RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard are prime examples). Anyone looking for the truth in any MSM is going to be disappointed.

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Matthew McWilliams's avatar

Problem is, it isn’t news. Some of us had heard of the Wuhan Institute of Virology even before the lockdowns started. It wasn’t hard to surmise that the virus hadn’t come from a wet market.

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Unsteady's avatar

Exactly - and if you remember they all seemed to agree on the same wet market where it came from - a dead giveaway - they were selling hard - too hard.

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Dick Hercher's avatar

And even had to invent an animal-the pangolin--to explain how it got from dead bats to humans. Amazing that so many Americans were so dumb they believed all these incredible lies. And then, even worse, they caught the mental fever and started advocating things like- no beaches, no parks, handy-wipe up your grocery packages, follow the arrows on the floor in a one way traffic pattern shopping at at Walmart. Some of these people are still wearing masks while swimming in the ocean. Just plain crazy.

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Athena's avatar

In 2022 I published an article on the "pandemic narratives," which documented the problems with the zoonotic argument, including the virus' unique genetic features, such as the furin cleavage and optimized ACE2 receptors:

doi: 10.1177/00027642221085893

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9051992/

The article remains relevant today, especially the alt-narrative focused on the rise of global technocratic elites.

Along with much of the liberal legacy media, the NYT worked very hard to cancel all narratives that did not conform to the zoonotic argument.

Those who raised the lab leak narrative were typically labeled "racist" by New York Times reading "intellectuals."

I believe that the pandemic backstory is still undisclosed and that the current NYT revisionism is simply an effort to get ahead of the story to protect those individuals, government and intergovernmental agencies, and for-profit organizations that reaped economic and political power from the crisis and its mandated resolutions.

The lasting effect has been the erosion of civil liberties, economic livelihoods and social trust.

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RSgva's avatar

Yes, funny how no one recommended some kind of “excess windfall profit tax” on the big online companies that put the small shops and restaurants out of business.

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Mom O'Scots's avatar

Sorry, Alex, but you must get over your residual pride in the Old Gray Lady. The NYT has been getting big things wrong since at least WW2. And whatever happened to their 2016 pledge to fairly cover fly over country? It's valuable as a birdcage liner but not for much else.

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Miriam Tiorano-Cathcart's avatar

Just think how many sheep took an untested bioweapon “vaccine” per a mandate signed with an autopen. Where is the outrage?

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John Huppenthal's avatar

Michael Worobey is the Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He has been appointed chief water boy for the zoonotic theory of covid. I have the following public records request in to the University of Arizona to see how handsomely he has been rewarded for carrying their water.

Interestingly enough, he had prior research on a peak flu year (2018?) which indicated that the cause of the extraordinary deaths that year was the flu vaccine disorienting people's immune system.

Annual compensation for either calendar year or fiscal year for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.

Annual salary for 2024.

All grants which Worobey has individually qualified for, or been the lead researcher of a consortium for calendar year or fiscal year 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

All grants for which Worobey has been part of a team of researchers but not the lead or sole researcher for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

All published citations for which Worobey has been the lead researcher

All published citations for which Worobey has been part of a team of researchers

As for a definition of compensation, all monies which are reported to the pension fund for which Worobey derives a pension.

As for a definition of grants, all monetary awards given for the sake of performing more research or any scholarly endeavor.

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Eva's avatar

"Mistakes were made." So, Soviet-esque.

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BigDrop's avatar

Why? Because they have one mission in Life: To get other Progressives elected to push their Progressive agenda. The truth, journalism, facts, and conservatives are simply viewed as Road Kill on that mission.

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Dark Thomas's avatar

this is the thing where you let one of your senators who you need to win an election vote for something popular so your team doesn't always look wrong all the time. you reap in a little credibility where you can afford it.

clearly zeynep tufekci (translation: cat stepped on a keyboard in turkish), is correct on this simple lab thing, but somehow wrong on the simpler mask thing. where the virus was physically too small to be filtered by these cotton masks.

https://sils.unc.edu/news/zeynep-tufekci-advocates-mask-wearing-in-open-letter-to-u-s-governors-and-op-eds-in-usa-today-and-the-atlantic/

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Pauline's avatar

Not surprised she worked in “library science”. I work at a public library and so many employees seem dedicated to masking forever. And, in my completely unscientific study, the higher up the ladder (therefore less likely to actually work with the public) you are in libraries the more likely you are to mask.

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Just The Facts Please's avatar

Perhaps they mask to hide their identity?

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¡Andrew the Great!'s avatar

Can they *ever* tell the whole truth, about *anything*?

No, they cannot. And that is because they're not journalists, and haven't been for a long, long time. We all know - and they do, too, as do their readers - that they are the blue-ribbon, top dog propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.

"Because they are propagandists, not journalists."

There's your headline's answer, Alex.

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